Recruitment pools (again)

[hoom]

quick defense force if under attack

Only as long as you hadn't already depleted the pool

[Martok]

Can you make an army of just top noch units or do you have a limit of how many units can be produced by that given settlement, i.e. you can only have 3 living units of scot guards?

Production caps, excellent! It would make the mid-to-end game a challenge! But I'm afraid this idea is too late...

Actually, CA has said there will be limits to each *type* of unit you can recruit per turn, not just an overall cap.

Take a Fortress (the largest castle) as an example. (WARNING! These are just hypothetical numbers I've made up, and probably don't reflect what's in the actual game!) Let's say a Fortress allows you to recruit up to 5 units per turn. From what CA has said, we'd be able to recruit something like 1 unit of Feudal Knights, 2 units of Men-at-Arms, 3 units of Archers, 4 units of basic Spearmen, and 6 units of Peasants.

Let's say I choose that turn to recruit the 1 unit of Knights, the 2 units of MAA, and 2 unit of Archers. I would then have recruited my max of 5 units for that turn. The next turn, there will probably be 3 units of Archers available again, but probably only 1 unit of Men-at-Arms and 0 units of Knights. If I wait an additional turn, however, another unit of Knights will be available again. This is because Archers are pretty common and low-level units, whereas on the other hand Men-at-Arms are somewhat better troops, with Knights being the best of all.

That's my understanding of how the recruitment system will work, anyway. Take it with as many grains of salt as you're comfortable with.

[the_mango55]

I think that it will be almost exactly like that, however I don't think that there will be a certain number of that specific unit, I think there will be a certain number of units available of each tech level: peasant, militia, professional, elite. Take for example the Byzantines.

There are the four levels of Archers:
Peasant Archers
Archer Militia
Trebizond Archers
Byzantine Guard Archers

Then there are the four levels of Infantry:
Peasants
Spear Militia
Byzantine Infantry
Varangian Guard

Now lets say that there are an available 8 peasants, 6 militia, 4 professionals, and 2 elite. If you train a Byzantine Infantry then there will be 3 pros left, and if you train a Trebizond Archers then there will be 2 left.

EDIT: and this is the way that I hope it will be, if they gave us specific units available we would have less choice in our army composition, as everyone would train an elite unit as soon as it became available, so every army will end up being the same.

[Martok]

I think that it will be almost exactly like that, however I don't think that there will be a certain number of that specific unit, I think there will be a certain number of units available of each tech level: peasant, militia, professional, elite. Take for example the Byzantines.

...EDIT...

Now lets say that there are an available 8 peasants, 6 militia, 4 professionals, and 2 elite. If you train a Byzantine Infantry then there will be 3 pros left, and if you train a Trebizond Archers then there will be 2 left.

EDIT: and this is the way that I hope it will be, if they gave us specific units available we would have less choice in our army composition, as everyone would train an elite unit as soon as it became available, so every army will end up being the same.

Yeah, that makes a little bit more sense than how I put it.